I’d first baked this Carrot Cake back in 2012 for my Mum and Sisters birthday and was featured on my other blog; The Gluten Free Student Cookbook. Carrot cake is a firm favourite in my family but I always assumed it was difficult to make and a bit of a ‘faff’ which is why I avoided making a gluten free one. I also couldn’t decide what ‘style’ of Carrot Cake I wanted to bake; a three tiered cake, a double cake with butter icing in between or a cake covered all over in frosting. As I wasn’t confident in my cake baking skills I decided on a single tiered carrot cake, with a single layer of frosting.

Also, this easy carrot cake can also be changed to suit those with a dairy intolerance as the main body of the cake does not require butter. However, as the frosting requires both cream cheese and butter, you will need to find an alternative recipe for dairy free frosting.

Green Smoothies are simply everywhere and dominated social media in 2015 with instagram posts and recipes to make your own super healthy green smoothie. Smoothies in general are an easy way to get your ‘5 a day’ in a few big gulps but what makes a smoothie a green smoothie and how do you make your own?

There are some green smoothie recipes out there that require angel tears and unicorn hair, making them hard to source ingredients and are very expensive to make. Also, as there’s literally 1000s of green smoothie recipes out there, it’s quite overwhelming where to start or what to try! So I thought I’d share my recipe for my green smoothie which includes fruit and vegetables that are easy to buy, full of super healthy benefits and don’t require much sourcing.

Also, as smoothies are so versitile and can be tweeked and changed to suit the fussiest of palettes, I have listed different types of foods to try and the maths behind a green smoothie! (yep you read that right, maths!)

I have been meaning to write this post for awhile now but felt that I couldn’t speak about it because I didn’t want to discuss it or write about it until I got my head round it first. Although I was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2013, I am still finding out new things about it, new ways to cope with the pain, dietary changes, different pain relief and what to discuss with your consultant.

By sharing my endometriosis story, I am hoping that it will help other endometriosis suffers or encourage you to go to your GP if you feel you have the symptoms. I’d also like to point out that I am no ‘expert’ in endometriosis and may not state facts correctly (like I said, I’m still learning!). However, the information below have been gathered from the NHS Choices website as well as the Endometriosis UK website.

Also March 2016 is also Endometriosis Awareness Month and I hope by sharing my endometriosis story will help bring awareness to this chronic and debilitating condition.

For a few months now, Me and Mike have been receiving a box of food, meat and ingredients from Hello Fresh every week. We’d decided to sign up as we we’re stuck in a rut. We’d been having the same meals day in, day out and wasting our money (as well as increasing our waist line) with take outs. Although I’ll be writing a full review on our experience with Hello Fresh, I thought I would let you guys in on one of our favourite dishes.

Although this recipe calls for ‘celeriac’ fries (don’t worry I didn’t know what a celeraic was before this dish), it can be also be made with potato fries, sweet potato fries, turnip fries and parsnip fries. So if you fancy something healthy and relatively quick then this recipe is for you!

Since being diagnosed with Endometriosis I have been unable to commit to a week long holiday, especially if it requires a long haul flight as I can’t guarntee I will be well enough. Which is why me and Mike [my boyfriend] go on short city breaks in Europe instead.

Amsterdam has been on my ‘must visit now’ list since forever but what has always stopped me was the image of it being the stag and hen weekend destination. However since visiting, I can confirm that Amsterdam is NOT just about hen and stag weekends, it is the most prettiest, most friendly and most gluten free friendly city I’ve ever visited!